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Tweet Eels, the much admired indie band that’s mostly just a guy named E, have just announced a new album for early next year, with art by Adrian Tomine, who has previously worked with the group. The name of the album — End Times — and the gloomy art combined to disturb many anxious indie [...]
Tweet [It's been a big month for artist John Cassaday. The final issue of PLANETARY shipped after a years long delay, marking the end of a 10-year-long chapter of his career. Even more importantly, he's currently in Los Angeles prepping to direct an episode of Dollhouse, the Joss Whedon-created show about Echo, an unwilling spy [...]
Tweet Last year, blogger Dick Hyacinth presented the world with a time-consuming project — compiling the 2007 best comics of the year lists into a critical consensus — much in the manner of the Village Voice’s old Pazz and Jop critics poll. He started doing the same for 2008 but suddenly, right in the middle…he [...]
TweetThe child is father to the man…or else there is always room for redemption and wisdom, Saul of Tarsus style. A few weeks ago, Jeet Heer unearthed a newspaper profile of Fantagraphics co-publisher Gary Groth at the age of 17. The young Groth was even then interested in publishing — the profile was published in [...]
Tweet§ We don’t know what quote about his comics addiction by Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos is the most endearing, from this Onion AV Club interview, but EDGAR WRIGHT, ARE YOU LISTENING??? AVC: You got into Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series after your song “Fight!” was mentioned in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe. Have [...]
Tweet We’ve been mostly on the road or hanging out with visitors for the last 10 days or so, and while more than a week of living on chicken fingers and Guinness has left our innards in ribbons, at least we have a few photos to show for it. So before we move on to [...]
Tweet …it might have gone something like this. Via Peter Serafinowicz, voice of Darth Maul and maestro of Look Around You.
Tweet What to be for Halloween? Jim Rugg has solved your problems with this AFRODISIAC HALLOWEEN MASK. AFRODISIAC, in case you didn’t know, is a new comic by Rugg and Brian Maruca: “Inspired by the blaxploitation films of the 1970s and classic superhero comics, the Afrodisiac collects art and comics starring the original super badass [...]
Tweet This week marks one full month on the road for KING-CAT COMICS cartoonist John Porcellino, who is continuing the promo tour for his new book, MAP OF MY HEART, with four stops across four Midwestern states: Tues. Oct. 20, 2009; 12:15 PM – Palatine IL Harper College Building I, Rm. 115 1200 W. Algonquin [...]
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